Twelve faithful reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's flight and wind machines loaned by Da Vinci Museum, Florence, demonstrate the remarkable prescience of this great artist and his engineering genius. Alongside these Renaissance machines, specially commissioned and selected works by contemporary artists respond to ideas of flight or explore the use of engineering in their conceptualisation, design or production.

This fascinating exhibition, curated by Lara Goodband, reminds us that the creativity of the engineer and the inspiration of the artist are two sides of the same coin of human endeavor and innovation.

A series of associated artists' talks and hands-on workshops for young people will take place throughout July and August. See the festival website for full details of these and other events.

2016 marks the third year of Brown's London Art Weekend (BLAW), when over seventy Mayfair and St. James's galleries and auction houses open their doors to the public for talks, walks, and exhibitions, with extended hours. From Friday to Sunday the gallery will be open to the public with Marcus Coates’ show You Might As Well Ask A Crow.

Gallery Hours during BLAW Friday, 10 AM - 8 PM

Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM Sunday, 12 AM - 5 PM61 Conduit Street

Mayfair

London, W1S 2GB

Workplace Gallery Tour & Drinks with Marcus Coates Friday, July 1, 7 PM Join Marcus Coates for drinks and a guided tour of the exhibition You Might As Well Ask A Crow as a special event for the Brown’s London Art Weekend. RSVP: rsvp@workplacegallery.co.uk

Brown’s London Art Weekend 1 - 3 July 2016 For 150 years Mayfair’s galleries and auction houses have welcomed the world’s greatest art collectors, and Brown’s London Art Weekend is the ultimate celebration of this London heartland, rich with art galleries and an experience unlike any other in the world.

A-or-ist no.2

A kind of care or substenance

Raven Row56 Artillery Lane London E1 7LS

A new magazine of contemporary writing on art and other subjects, the second issue of A-or-ist explores the idea of being 'a kind of care or sustenance'. At a moment when state-provided care is receding, what might it be to 'take care' of ourselves or others? What if we're all past caring - all already polluted, toxic?

Jenna Bliss will screen her film A History of Lincoln Detox (excerpt no. 2) (2016), which looks into what society considers to be 'drugs', how national legislation, foreign policy and agencies such as the CIA influence their availability, and the turn towards holistic treatments for addiction. The screening will be followed by comments from Arran James, a mental health nurse working in substance misuse and a contributor to the independent media platform openDemocracy.

This event at Raven Row has been organised by the A-or-ist contributor-editors.

A-or-ist writer Alice Hattrick will read from 'According to Alice', her regular column on perfume.

Issue no. 2 guest contributor Caspar Heinemann will read two poems in development: one on queer politics, chaos magic and neoliberalism; the other on food, gentrification and tabloid scare stories.

For this event, Darren Banks has made a special edit of his film Object Cinema (2015), to which Jamie Sutcliffe responds with a reading from his text published in A-or-ist, 'Mutational Media & Deep Time Thrombosis: On Darren Banks' Object Cinema'.

Writer and publisher Huw Lemmey will present his work Pig Curious, a short visual account of a stake-out of Scotland Yard via the app Grindr, reflecting historical links between surveillance, spying and homosexuality.

Saxophonist Seymour Wright will perform a sound work written for the event, responding to the precept that we are all already toxified.

Launched in 2015 as 'a place for the elsewhere unfinished or otherwise disallowed', A-or-ist is produced by a collective of eight contributor-editors: Amy Budd, Hannah Gregory, Alice Hattrick, Lizzie Homersham, Shama Khanna, Naomi Pearce, Jamie Sutcliffe and Jonathan P. Watts. Each issue features newly commissioned texts by invited contributors; issue no. 2 includes new writing by Caspar Heinemann and Abondance Matanda.

A-or-ist is published by Eros Press. Copies of A-or-ist no. 2 will be available to purchase at a special launch price of £5 alongside other Eros Press publications.

Transfer Laban / Wolfgang Weileder

Recreating the Façade of the Laban Building (Herzog & de Meuron, 1997) as a performative time-based sculpture whereby the shape and dimensions of a building are only momentarily revealed.

Through a process of simultaneous construction and deconstruction, each weekday over a two-week period, the 40m-long façade will appear section by section as the structure moves slowly across Montgomery Square until it is complete. Erected from white lightweight concrete blocks and a support system scaffolding structure, each section will be visible for a single day before being deconstructed and rebuilt as the next section in sequence.

The process will be recorded using time-lapse video and long exposure photography, capturing the entire façade as it materialises over time.

Working in collaboration with Charles Linehan and students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, a series of new dance performances has been developed in response to the work and will be present on site each day during intervals in the construction process at 12.30pm and 4.30pm.

Commissioned by Locus+ with funding from the Arts and Humanties Research Council and in partnership with the Canary Wharf Group.

Thursday, June 09, 2016

Marcus Coates, How can I have more impact with what I do?(Humpback whale), 2016, HD video, duration 20mins

MARCUS COATES

You Might As Well Ask A Crow

Private View: Thursday 9th June 6pm-8pm

Exhibition continues 9th June - 29th July 2016

WORKPLACE LONDON

61 Conduit Street

Mayfair

London, W1S 2GB

Tel: +44 (0) 207 434 1985

(open Thursday - Friday 10am - 5pm and by appointment)

http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/

Workplace London is delighted to announce a presentation of Marcus Coates’ new work in the Mayfair gallery. The work draws from Coates’ ongoing investigation into the role of the artist as a mediator and vicarious agent.

“Have you brought a question with you? Could you write it down please. I need to understand this as if it were my own. Your question will become my question.”

During a schedule of private consultations in recent months, Marcus Coates has met with individuals from diverse backgrounds, who have each come to the artist with a question that bears a particular significance to them. The questions posed to Coates have taken myriad forms from political and ethical to deeply personal, the only limitation being that they could not be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’, nor could the solution be found using an internet search engine. Utilising the gallery space in a manner of a consultation room, Coates has discussed and worked through the questions privately with each individual by using processes and forms of reasoning that rely less on conscious rationalisation and more on imaginative experience to provide insight.

The artwork/answers produced as a result of the gallery being used as a consultation space are exhibited here for the returning clients to view and discuss with the artist for the first time. It is important for Coates that this display can also be seen/used by the public in order to test the work’s wider relevance. Coates attempts to not only redefine the role of the artist but also to explore the part played by a commercial gallery space and the audience. By raising questions about the products of artistic activities and the very purpose of art, Coates challenges our intuitions concerning the limits of what it is an artist does, but also what we consider as art.

Energy Flash - The Rave Movement is the first museum exhibition for considering the rave phenomenon, as well as the social, political, economic and technological conditions that led to the advent of rave as an alternative movement across Europe. As an interdisciplinary project, Energy Flash presents the work of visual artists in dialogue with many artefacts from the fields of design, literature and music, along with items from various personal archives, television documentaries and legislation.

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Marcus Coates, How can I have more impact with what I do?(Humpback whale), 2016, HD video, duration 20mins

MARCUS COATES

You Might As Well Ask A Crow

Private View: Thursday 9th June 6pm-8pm

Exhibition continues 9th June - 29th July 2016

WORKPLACE LONDON

61 Conduit Street

Mayfair

London, W1S 2GB

Tel: +44 (0) 207 434 1985

(open Thursday - Friday 10am - 5pm and by appointment)

http://www.workplacegallery.co.uk/

Workplace London is delighted to announce a presentation of Marcus Coates’ new work in the Mayfair gallery. The work draws from Coates’ ongoing investigation into the role of the artist as a mediator and vicarious agent.

“Have you brought a question with you? Could you write it down please. I need to understand this as if it were my own. Your question will become my question.”

During a schedule of private consultations in recent months, Marcus Coates has met with individuals from diverse backgrounds, who have each come to the artist with a question that bears a particular significance to them. The questions posed to Coates have taken myriad forms from political and ethical to deeply personal, the only limitation being that they could not be answered with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’, nor could the solution be found using an internet search engine. Utilising the gallery space in a manner of a consultation room, Coates has discussed and worked through the questions privately with each individual by using processes and forms of reasoning that rely less on conscious rationalisation and more on imaginative experience to provide insight.

The artwork/answers produced as a result of the gallery being used as a consultation space are exhibited here for the returning clients to view and discuss with the artist for the first time. It is important for Coates that this display can also be seen/used by the public in order to test the work’s wider relevance. Coates attempts to not only redefine the role of the artist but also to explore the part played by a commercial gallery space and the audience. By raising questions about the products of artistic activities and the very purpose of art, Coates challenges our intuitions concerning the limits of what it is an artist does, but also what we consider as art.

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Based in Gateshead UK, Workplace Gallery represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists through the gallery programme, curatorial projects and international art fairs.